On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 12:59:04PM -0700, Frank Mayhar wrote: > human cognition doesn't make much sense. On the other hand, though, I am > becoming more and more convinced that the difference between the complexity > of an insect and that of a human is a matter of amount, not kind. It's the > same set of processes, with some modifications and much, much increased > complexity. Sufficient quantity becomes quality. And humans have well integrated memory, strong timesense, and above all approximate Turing universality. Insects don't seem to have long-term memory, and no other lifeform is known to be able to be computationally universal. That's a big difference in kind of complexity. Or relatedly, we're programmable, as are other higher animals, not hard-wired. (We usually call this 'learning'.) -xx- Damien X-)